Monday, October 19, 2009 12:03 PM
Fake 'Chamber' Press Release Dupes Media
My colleague Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic writes this post.
"U.S. Chamber of Commerce is throwing its weight behind strong climate legislation"
The headline, if true, would be a news story indeed: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, according to a press release e-mailed to journalists this morning, had decided to reverse its opposition to strong climate change legislation. But that's false. Some unknown group decided to punk the Chamber. And in the process, at least one news organization, Reuters, fell for it.
For full disclosure, I was one of the reporters that was duped and I immediately removed the post from our blog.
Caroline James
Monday, February 28, 2011
U.S. Chamber of Commerce is throwing its weight behind strong climate legislation. Redirect Virus
Chris R
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
I noticed it duped this website as well. I also noticed that you deleted your original article.
I would have fell for it too. It would seem that the chamber is very much on the wrong side of the issues as far as the general public is concerned.
I read your story about how the chamber has spent several million on lobbying this quarter. Nice job.